Flappy Shotgun · Wyatt Morris

27 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
27
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4 and 13-16 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FLAPPY SHOTGUN · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 26 and 27.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 25-27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

27 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flappy Shotgun?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Flappy Shotgun hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

27 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Flappy Shotgun?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 26 and 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 27 BARS ANALYSED
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